-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Per Jessen wrote:
_if_ opensuse is focusing on desktops and no longer attempting to be a first choice for server OS, then it's a good default for both security and performance reasons. Regardless how minimal the impact in either or both areas.
Yes, _if_ openSUSE is changing tack and will be completely focusing on being a desktop system, I agree.
For any OS that even casually wants to claim to be a server platform, it makes no sense to default without sshd enabled. Because of the principle of least surprise if nothing else.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
This are the first observations on the direction openSuSE seems to be taking that echoes a concern of mine. Although it vigorously denied there is increasing emphasis on the home user desktop and a benign neglect of other areas elsewhere, the end product seems to undermine that denial. I am personally not really interested in much of the multi-media and desktop 'bells and whistles', but more in having a developmental and research environment (with a bit of personal admin stuff). The tendency to force the user away from the 'gubbins' which makes things work in newer desktops is often more a hindrance than a help in this context. (Having to work out which process you need to temporarily kneecap to get the results one wants is a PITA). I can see the both sides of the ssh/sshd argument. I think what we really need is probably a restore to the concept of a professional configuration for the technically literate and a basic user configuration for the M$ refugees and not so literate. Installing 11.1 from scratch when one you knew what you wanted was possible but unnecessarily time consuming (at this moment 11.2 looks like something I will skip). There are at least two different basic user groupings involved and they have different base line requirements.
/Per
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